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RAILROAD RAIL AND BED PLATE THEREFOR.

No. 369,049. Patented Aug..30, 1887.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN A. ELLIOTT, OF NEOSHO RAPIDS, KANSAS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TOJOSEPH B. MARTIN, OF SAME PLACE.

RAILROAD-RAIL AND BED-PLATE THEREFOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 369,049, dated August30, 1887.

Application filed March 28, 1887. Serial No. 232,679. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN A. ELLIOTT, a. citizen of the United States,residing at Neosho Rapids, in the county of Lyon and State of Kansas,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Railroad Rails andBed- Plates therefor; and I do hereby declare the following to be afull,clear, and exact descrip tion of the invention, such as will enableothers skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use thesame.

My invention is an improvement in railroads rails and bed-platestherefor; and my said invention'consists of a rail formed with a centralcylindrical body, from which radiate three T-shaped projections,whichform the head and web of the rail, and a continuous bed plate formedwith a curved central recess to receive the curved or cylindrical bodyof the rail, short transversely placed pieces to form the tics orsupport for the bed-plate, and recesses to receive two of theT-projections of the rail, all constructed and arranged to operatesubstantially as and for the purposes as will be hereinafter described,and pointed out in the claims.

For a better understanding of the details of construction andarrangement of the parts composing a railroad-rail'and its bed whenconstructed according to my invention, reference is had to theaccompanying drawings, in which-- Figure 1 represents a plan view, Fig.2 a transverse section on the line mm of Fig. 1, and Fig. 3 a sideelevation, of a portion of a railroad-rail and its bed-plate constructedaccording to my invention. Fig. 4 is a plan of the bed-plate.

The rail is composed of a central cylindrical body, A, from which,equidistant from each other, radiate three T-shaped projections;

- which form the head a and web b of the rail.

A slot or recess as well as bolt-holes are also formed in thisbed-plate, as at d c, Fig. 2, to receive the heads a of the T-rail andthe bolts B, by which the rail is held to its bed-plate.

Interposed between the rail and its bed-plate is'a thick paper or feltlining, as atf, Fig. 2, whereby much of the metallic noise and jar ofthe parts is prevented, especially in elevated roads.

By forming the rail and its bed-plate as here shown, in addition toproviding a secure mode of fastening the parts together, the railpresents six different wearing -surfaces for the rails-that is, when oneedge of the head is worn away by turning the rail end for end, the otheredge may be used, and when this edge is also used up the rail is turnedover so as to bring one of the other T-projections upward into position,when the same operation may be repeated, and so on until both sides ofall three of the rail-heads are used up.

I do not, however, wish to be understood as layingclaim, broadly, to arailroad-rail formed with three radiating T- shaped projections, each ofwhich is adapted to form a perfect rail when arranged in a verticalposition, as this I 1. The combination, in a railroad-rail,with

the rail formed of the central curved body, A, and three T-projectionsradiating therefrom, each with doubleflanged heads a, of the bedplate 0,formed with the central curved recess, G, beveled edges 0', recesses d,and short transverselyarranged ties c and securing-bolts c, allconstructed and arranged substantially as described, for the purposesspecified.

2. The combination, with the rail formed with a central cylindricalbody, three radiating T- projections, and bedplate with central curvedrecess having beveled edges and short transverse ties, of the interposedlining of paper or felt between the rail and itsbed-plate, substantiallyas described, for the purposes specified.

JOHN A. ELLIOTT. In presence of A. M. FLoRY,

WILLIAM L. Huenss.

